Will This Time Be Different For You?
“You discard the name they gave you. In its place, you weave god’s name into your identity. At first babble, it is Nzambi Enzi, then Zambezi, and finally, Zambia.”
No Peace In A Lagos Bus
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Suffering Is Literature’s Big Game
Apropos of writing an essay on the experience of plodding through a difficult time in my life, I have been thinking about what suffering means for the artist. The process of writing that essay, as one would expect, was a dark affair layered with distress and pain. I...
To J.P. Clark, On Ibadan
We know that visiting a military dictator to seek pardon for a coup plotter is no small feat. Soyinka says the visit was your idea. Where did you get the courage?